HTML line break spacing

[flib]

I'm having a really dumb issue and I've just about exhausted my ability to search for an answer.
Here's a basic example of the problem. It really seems like there ought to be some way to fix this with CSS:

Code

<p>Hello w
orld</p>

Outputs

Code

Hello w orld

Rather than

Code

Hello world

This happens because there is a linebreak between 'w' and 'world'. This is mostly an issue because this also happens with images and I would rather that it didn't.

[Renegade]

It would be wrong to fix that with CSS. Line breaks serve 2 purposes: 1) Content, 2) Code Formatting. So, there's no way to determine whether the line break is one or the other there. As such, it's interpreted as a space in those cases.

e.g.

Code: (html4strict)

<p> This is
a paragraph. And it has 
2 sentences.
</p>
<pre>But this is preformatted
text
and
displays 
as
you see it here.</pre>

I'm not sure if my spaces at the ends of the lines will be rendered here. (Most lines have no spaces.)

Try using a text editor that doesn't automatically break lines. That should solve the problem.

[Renegade]

Also, have a read here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1097006/removing-whitespace-between-html-elements-when-using-line-breaks

That addresses the image issue, though all the solutions are messy.

And check here for the authority:

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/text.html#line-breaks

[flib]

Thanks, float:left; fixed it.